TRANSLATIONThe title theme of the novel or secret message is the name of the machine sparamusica / noise that makes a fine show of himself on stage and that no intervention from musicians around pulling down his catalog of other sounds with which they are confronted. An idea that would like to Futurist henceforth a century ago, a hymn to the total modernity. Nothing but acoustic instruments! The three musicians involved with the machine are Han-earl Park on guitar, Bruce Coates on alto and sopranino and Franziska Schroeder on soprano sax. They have no fear of confrontation, and so they passionately with passion on the proposal inanimate object. The completely improvised session requires a lot of attention from the listener, to be paid back fully what it is an experiment failed. We are not here in the presence of programs that give a result that the composer / programmer is expected to have a car but left to fend for itself propose to answer, for what it is his understanding, raise, on which the trio of musicians creates human interaction instantly, improvisations that sometimes buy very strong atmosphere. The three are not only to discover the possibilities inherent in theirinstruments outside of engineering solutions. They are also to explore, to get caught by the possibilities inherent in the sound itself, and sometimes seems to listen to a lesson Steve Lacy. It is so that everything takes on a more earthly and the encounter / clash with the machine gives improvvisante soundscapes and full of unusual ideas.

Translation below by Felipe Hickman.This is a fake quartet between an improvisation machine, io 0.0.1 beta++, created by guitarist Han-earl Park, and three human improvisors, Park himself and saxophonists Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano). The automaton in question has a computer attached, but was built with kitchen utensils. The sounds it produces have a limited spectrum, as the purpose is to mock the soundtracks of sci-fi movies from the 1950s and 60s. The carbon musicians involved sometimes work in the field of ‘avant-jazz’, sometimes on the electroacoustics’ border with contemporary music: Park with Charles Havward, Wadada Leo Smith and Paul Dunmall, Coates with Tony Oxley, Lol Coxhill and the indeterminacy composer Christian Wolff, and Schroeder besides the Portuguese pianist Pedro Rebelo and in collaborations with Pauline Oliveros and Evan Parker. All these experiences are reflected in themes such as ‘Ground-Based Telemetry’ and ‘Laplace: Instability’, always with io interactively reacting to what they do and even giving them cues.

09/10/2011 Ed Pinsent

io o.o.1. beta++ (SLAMCD 531) is the title of a CD I received via the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queen’s in Belfast, although it’s released on Slam Productions in Oxford and the chief instigator, Han-Earl Park, is based in Los Angeles. The guitarist Park, sometime member ofMathilde 253 whose fine CD impressed us in March this year, is joined by two improvising saxophonists, Bruce Coates (from the Birmingham Improviser’s Orchestra) and Franziska Schroeder (member of the trio FAINT), and the record documents the meeting of this trio with the “machine musician” io o.o.1. beta++. This device is an automaton, a musical robot if you will, built by Mr Park; it’s not just another computer programme that plays random sounds or builds an “interactive” space for other laptop musicians, but actually occupies physical space and performs on the stage alongside its human counterparts. Shades of Pierre Bastien…it might have been nice to scope some photos of this mechanical man at work, but there are none provided with the release. The multi-media artist Sara Roberts from California writes the liner notes and she does a much better job than I possibly could in articulating the cultural resonances of this man-meets-automaton event. By Ed Pinsent http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2011/09/10/the-infiltrators/

18/07/2011 Bruce Lee Gallanter

O 0.0.1 BETA++ [HAN-EARL PARK/BRUCE COATES/FRANZISKA SCHROEDER] - io 0.0.1 beta++ (Slam 531; UK) Featuring Han-earl Park on guitar, Bruce Coates on alto & sopranino saxes, Franziska Schroeder on soprano sax and io 0.0.1 Beta playing itself. Some of you should recall guitarist Han-earl Park from a couple of discs he has done Paul Dunmall, a duo and a quartet. British saxist Bruce Coates also worked with Mr. Dunmall as well as with John Edwards and Christopher Hobbs. I hadn't heard of Franziska Schroeder before this although she has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker and Chris Brown. Even more rare is that these three human musicians are improvising with a machine called io 0.0.1 beta or io for short. Io was constructed by Han-earl Park and is an integral part of this quartet. Io creates some sort of electronics sounds which don't really sound like that much like the electronic sounds created by humans. Io does create sounds based on what the other three musicians are doing. The music made by this quartet is improvised and does make sense. Both saxists work well together, cautiously bending their notes around one another while Han-earl also plays fragmented sounds on his guitar. Io also adds its own diverse yet fractured sounds to the blend. On "Pioneer: Dance" Mr. Coates plays slightly twisted alto sax while io adds similar textural sounds. If I didn't know better, I would think that this was a successful session of European improv by a quartet of gifted yet thoughtful players who take their time to explore similar textures and terrain together. I am not so sure that machines will ever take the place of human improvisers in the future, however this disc shows that someone is working in the right direction. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, July 2011.

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